The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-15
The PROGRESS OF WOVEN
IN ALL THINGS RFQUIRISG
MORAL POWER
They Prove Themselves the Real
Masters, and In Brains They
Are Equal to Men.
IcoRREsPoSDKxoE OF rHH .lpPEAL.l

man has yielded to the growing civil
ization Of the age, and allowed wom-
an an equal race in any of the pro-
fessions, she has proven herself
worthy of the place.
GEORGIA chartered and built the
first women's college in the United
States.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX gives
away in charity all the money she
gets for her poems.
A NIECE of Maria Mitchell, of
Vassar, is one of the proof readers on
the new Century dictionary.
Mrs. DANIELS, wife of Capt. Dan
iels, of the Water Lily, has just been
licensed as pilot of that steamer.
THE Bombay Gazette has broken
the ice by employing sixteen Anglo
Indian girls as compositors and a
woman as proof reader.
The Connecticut House OF Repre-
sentatives has passed bill making
women eligible to election on district
school boards.
Mrs. CUSTER is delighted with the
scenery and climate Of Southern Cal
ifornia, and pronounces it'"an excel
lent trip for overworked and wornout
women"
COMPARING the morals of France
with those of England or America, it
seems safe to infer that justice to
women is not only right, but whole
some.
MARIA MITCHELL says: II have
so long believed it was right for wom-
en- to have a share in the government
that it seems like the first axiom |
learned in geometry"
MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT
expects to spend the SUMMER in the
West, writing life of Kit Carson,
the famous scout and explorer who
guided Gen. Fremontover the Rocky
Mountains.
Miss FLORENCE GREENE, of Mon
treal, who saved her father last sum
mer IRON being carried over the La
chine rapids, has been presented
with the medal OF the Royal Humane
Society OF England.
A CLASS of seven young women
will graduate next month from the
training school for nurses at the Buff
alo, N. Y, general hospital. Six
young women,,received their diplomas
in January. Trained nursing is
CROWNS in favor as a profession for
women.
ABOUT fifty women have this year
been elected as school supervisors in
Maine. The State Superintendent
of Schools testifies that women on
school committees are reformers, and
can be counted on to favor the most
enlightened ways of dealing with
teachers and scholars.
SINCE the world began, to refine
society has been woman's function.
You may be sure that she who has
carried refinement to the household,
to the church, to social life, to litera-
ture, to art, to every interest except
government, will also carry it to leg
islation and the whole of civil pro-
cedure.
MANY of the arguments that are
used against letting women vote were
used against letting women enter the
profession, and with more force.
For if a woman has not physical or
mental capacity enough to help
choose a selectman, she certainly has
not capacity enough to practice law
or medicine, or to preach the gospel.
ALL reports from Kansas applaud
the fidelity of the colOred women to
the law and order ticket. Says one
writer in Our Messenger: They
stood solid front against the enemy.
No money could buy them, no threats
intimidate them, no faueries per-
suade them. They said, We are for
law and order and against the sa-
looms. "
A NEW trade for women is that of
"neighborhood darner." The woman
who follows it has for her customers
dozen or twenty households, each
of which she visits weekly, and
spends few hours in doing up the
family darning and mending, includ-
ing ripping and cleansing of old
gowns. Her engagements are sys-
tematized, and she never lacks work.
Some of these members make a
speciality Of repairing lace and other
delicate fabrics. The pay is fairly
good, and the professional mender is
a great blessing to busy housekeepers
with large families.
Mrs. MARY l.. BARR, who is COM
ing into notice through her Scotch
dialect stories, began to write when
she was fifty four. She lost her hus-
band, who was Military Governor of
Texas, AMI seven children, all within
twenty -four hours, from yellow fever,
and found herself left with four lit
tie ones and with only fifty cents in
her pocket book. She went to New
J York and became governess in the
family of one OF A. 7. Stewart part
ners. Her first tale was written to
crafty the within of her employer, Ii
was promptly accepted by publish
er, and since then she has gone on
writing with growing success.
EXPERIENCE does not seem to
bear out the idea that domestic mo-
rality is improved by restricting the
personal and property rights Of
wives. France is the mos notori-
ously immoral country in Europe
yet in France the husband has by law
the most despotic power over his
wife. The French code was drawn
up in accordance with the will Of
Napoleon, who said:
"a husband must hSve absolute control O.
his wife's actions. He has right to say Z
her, Madame, you shall not go out; mad
amr, you shall not go to the play; madame
youa shall no. SEQ such and such persons
in short, madame, you are my property
body and SOUL"
| Miss MARY oTILLTNGHAsT is one
of the most successful among the
women who have made a business o,
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